How to Create Your Own LEGO® Dark Trooper Display

As most LEGO® Star Wars™ fans will agree, building your own minifigure trooper collection is a great part of the hobby. Using a less traditional trooper building set, Dark Trooper Attack (75324), we explore how you can create a trooper diorama combing four sets, using the instructions as your guide.

LEGO Star Wars Dark Trooper Attack is an incredibly desirable set – and the inclusion of three Dark Trooper minifigures makes it the perfect trooper building set. Like with other trooper builder sets, to really recreate the imposing ‘on-screen’ presence, especially that of these virtually indestructible droids, you will want to purchase multiple sets to get those lines of troopers configured.

This set not only provides quantities for building your army but also presents the perfect diorama opportunity for a LEGO Star Wars themed display. No more ‘where do I display these’ concerns as there is a ready-made solution within the box. Buying multiples (as many have) means you not only get the trooper numbers, but you will also have duplicates of the space corridor build. Utilizing all these extra bricks can lead to something quite special.

By following the general corridor design, combing the sets can create a more comprehensive ‘space corridor’. In this example, we have combined just four sets with no additional parts required, in fact you will have some left over. This is also a technique that works with Boarding the Tantive IV (75387).

Making the base

The first place to start was to decide, just how big to build the base. Getting this right would make the rest of the build much easier. Wanting to retain and follow as much of the original build as possible, we simply doubled the floor length and added four studs to the width, allowing the rotating door and its mechanism to remain in the same location. This meant we utilized roughly three of the sets’ floor pieces. With the layout, we tried to follow as many of the design techniques and fundamentals from the original instructions as possible.

Adding the walls

Once the floor was constructed and the door in place, the layout of the original followed. Using the sloped brick pillars four studs apart as markers, we then inserted the decaled wall panels, slotting them in-between to replicate the repeating corridor pattern.

Once built, we could see just how many bricks we had remaining, and this led to the decision to add a small offset corridor up the far end by the rotating door. Once this was added, plates were used to strengthen the walls. That’s the beauty of creating your own build – you can always go back, adding and changing your mind as you go along.

Greebling and adding details

Once the structure is essentially built, you can start to look at the remaining elements and add in some details. With plenty elements left to choose from, we used the large pieces to build crates and containers as ancillary decorations. Then we utilized elements like the ingot tiles, grill pieces and tiles to add some texture and greebling in places, while elsewhere we covered up some of the exposed studs in to give a contrasting smooth finish.

The finished product

This project was incredibly fun to do and using the building instructions as a guide and a source of inspiration made the task less daunting. Once we had gotten the basic size sorted, we explored several layouts and configurations before settling on the final design. By limiting our build to only using the pieces in the four sets it meant we made decisions quicker, and building off the original design meant we had a good starting point. This way of building was a great way to get into making our own creations without the daunting prospects of brick selection, sourcing pieces or ultimately deciding what we should build. We were able to get to the building fun quicker with much less planning.

Let us know what you think. Have you combined any sets before to make your own creation? Maybe you’ve created your own LEGO Star Wars scene?

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